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An album of never-before-seen World War II photographs is sent to Rebecca Erbelding, the archives director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The photos show the officials who ran Auschwitz, the deadliest concentration camp in human history. As Rebecca delves into these images, a surprising story emerges: how do we live everyday life next to a death camp? Soon, the images begin appearing on the front pages of newspapers around the world.
In Germany, a businessman sees the photos online and recognizes his grandfather in one. This leads him on a journey of discovery that will lead him to meet other descendants of Nazis and to confront his family's past.
"HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES" tells the story of these photographs, what they reveal about the Holocaust, and what they reveal about our humanity.
“The play examines the extraordinary and disturbingly ordinary lives of the Nazis who worked at Auschwitz during World War II and the 21st-century historians at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum who find themselves trying to make sense of the past.” DCTRENDING
ABOUT THE PROJECT
“() We are in the midst of a defining moment in our culture. And the setting is a perfect platform to explore this reckoning with a violent and terrible history.
As a descendant of Holocaust survivors, the casual snapshots in Karl Hocker’s 1944 selfie album unnerve me. It’s one thing to commit unspeakable violence against a people. It’s quite another to mark mass killings with casual songs and carefree outdoor picnics.
() If we rely on the generations that came before us, living and benefiting from an unjust system they built, what responsibility do we have, as individuals and as a society, to right so many wrongs?
I want to bring this work to the widest possible audience so we can learn to recognize this conflict within ourselves, examine our own choices, grapple with our shared past, and reimagine our collective future.”
Moises Kaufman
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour and 25 minutes
PRICE: €23 / €20 / €15 / €12
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